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Like Peppers in a Pod

I’ll Take Mine With a Splash, Please! I always love a scene that is essentially monochromatic with a splash of color. The day in Queenstown, New Zealand was all that and more! It had been raining a ton – with more due that day. New Zealand is already shades of blue… so this day it…

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Where The Heavens, Art and The Imagination Meet

The Splendid Sunset It was a magnificent evening in Queenstown, New Zealand high atop Deer Park Heights. DPH is no longer open to the public, but the intrepid Trey Ratcliff had, of course, found a way to bring the entire group of us up there for a sunset shoot. It was a photo adventure workshop,…

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The Big Picture

The big picture is a wondrous thing. It’s that nice looong view that gives you some perspective on yourself, your life, your project, your whatever-marvelous-thing you’re headed toward. It gives you a moment to breathe. A chance to rise above all the hoo-ha and decide which way the wind is blowing. Figure out whether you need…

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Beauty and the Tire

She was so lovely in the morning, all blue-green sweetness. How does anyone wake up looking so refreshed?  Seriously. I gotta say, Queenstown Harbour is one gorgeous dame in the morning! I stood on a wall to take this picture… tripod and all. I wanted the whole kit’n kaboodle in the shot. I also posted…

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Glacier Blue

I have learned that Lake Wakatipu is the longest lake in New Zealand. 50 miles in fact. And when the light changes, so does the color, in quite dramatic ways. Even on a stormy, stormy day the glacier fed waters seem iridescent, which I found almost startling! This was a couple of days before “Trey’s…

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